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Quite grotesque the use of this word by our nearest and dearest neighbour, over on the mainland.

It harks back to the 'rivers of blood' speech by Powell.

They are getting more and more desperate, every moment that passes, to sustain the mirage they now live in...

Happily, today we had an invasion here in Spain of Celtic fans.

On here!

Over, on the mainland.

Playingcards, funny enough, most people on this forum regard you in the same way.

Just so...

Inflation is rocketing and interest rates to follow suit.
Price of everything is shooting up so many folks are going to struggle with just that.
On top of that, mortgage rates are going to shoot up.
So expect lots of folks to have major issues repaying their mortgages with defaults all over the place.
Looks like a recipe for carnage to me...

https://www.ft.com/content/c11421ff-5f85-48d4-b93d-1b6b0dc48185

Blocked!

Six weeks of 38C to 41C finally ended yesterday.

Back to normal temperatures now, so in the range of 27C to 35C for the next few weeks.

But I see that in Ireland you're getting unprecedented highs also...

Friday 41C
Saturday 41C
Sunday 41C
Monday 40C
Tuesday 37C
Wednesday 39C
Thursday 41C
Friday 39C

Here you have the weather at the end of the news!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVkQpGti0eU

All you have to do is check out....

https://www.donedeal.ie/donkeys

DublinRory, Dublin has been become quite expensive and the 'Lonely Planet Guide' recently commented specifically about it! I Recently I checked out prices for car hire and they are completely bonkers! Getting somewhere to stay and sensible prices is impossible. Also, Dublin airport is totally chaotic! Just some words of caution.

About this forum, best filter the amadáns!

This really grabbed me....

Ireland owns 4.3% of US debt....

https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-06-27/is-the-world-sinking-into-a-spiral-of-conflict.html

L@@k for the yellow horizontal strip with a few bits of grey shading, about 2/3s way down.

Equally there is another graphic just above the above one, which indicates that the UK is nowhere to be found, when it comes to the 'Location of main tech companies in the world'.

There you go now, who would have thought that...

Hello dublinrory, good to hear from you! Its been getting a bit hot here last few days with the thermometer hitting 40C. I have taken refuge indoors with the air con on day and night at times. My new job means I'm travelling like mad. Last week was in Portugal, tomorrow heading to Leon in the north of Spain and August so far I'll go to Italy, Denmark, Poland and then quick trip to Ireland at the end of August for a family do. My shares are holding up OK. Any plans to visit Ireland this summer?

I am happy to report that my dividend appeared as "Bank Of Ireland Group Plc EUR1
Overseas Dividend Payment" and it has been credited to my UK based Hargreaves Lansdown share trading account.

Having said that, it is a rather pitifully small dividend, given the amount I have invested in FKIR.

"Rented it to students for €2220 pm and then kicked them out in the middle of a rental crisis, so he could sell the property tax free availing of a no CGT incentive all legal."

I have always agreed with you, for years, except now, and from time-to-time when I vehemently disagreed with you, besides that, I disagree with you on principle, but putting all that aside, we do tend to agree, sporadically, when there is a blue moon, now that that is sorted, I'll meander onto the point I was making.

You can easily split ethical principles into pubic and private!

Don't ever make the mistake, as you have done, that you confuse the ethical principles a man wants to apply to his family, to feed his kids, the dog, the cat and the budgie with his ethical principles, he applies, when it comes to pubic service.

Capiche o no?

I must report that my filter is working very well and I see is a sea of multiple green filtered posts.

It walks life a fool, it talks like a fool and it looks like a fool!

What is it? A fool!

Time to put up or shut up, playingcards!

The only business trip you go on is down to your local corner shop to buy some sweet, either on your school break or or when you receive your dole payment.

You've far too much time on your hands to be engaged in anything serious in life....

The only thing you're cautions about is whether it is going to rain on not on the way to the candy store and if you need a coat or not. Most probably you can't even make a decision about that! Locked in perpetual indecision!

Inner turmoil haunts your mind about making any kind of a decision, in life.

Thus we sum up the amadan, playingcards!

Well, when they get into power they should rename the country the 'banana republic' with all the promises they have made and these lunatics in power, you'll be well on your way to Venezuelian style economy.

I'd bet they would love to nationalise the banks, if they thought they could get away with it.